Awatchfire

Sweetwater County, Wyoming

Bitter Fire

Burning 6.5 miles south-west of Arrowhead Springs and 8.6 miles south-east of Purple Sage, since Sunday 23 August.

Map of Wyoming. The Bitter Fire burns 232 miles from Cheyenne, and 232 miles from the state capital, Cheyenne.
The fire sits 232 miles from Cheyenne.

0

acres burned so far

52

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Bitter Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. The figures below are the official record. A satellite heat map and day-by-day history appear here as soon as detections are attributed to this fire.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

52 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 23 August at 4:05pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

41.441, -109.242lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 10.8 miles from the fire: 38°F, air at 77% humidity, a 15 mph wind out of the north-east.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

No satellite heat has been attributed to this fire yet — either it is too new for a pass to have caught it, or it is too small to register from orbit. Everything above is from the interagency incident record and updates as that record does.

How the record has moved

Each step is a change on the interagency incident record — acreage, containment or crews — with the date it was reported. No satellite reading is involved.

  1. Sunday 23 August

    First reported

  2. Sunday 23 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac